Open Water

I never expected the weather to warm up this much until March! It was all the way up into the 40s today. I ran two teams around the Sawtelle loop. Just a half a mile from my house, in the middle of the field, an irrigation ditch meanders across our path. Today it was running water as far as I could see with no snow bridges crossing it. Fortunately, it is quite narrow, so the sled can bridge it without getting my feet wet. The dogs had to put a foot or two in the water, though, and they didn't like that, besides the fact that it was a steep step down and then back up. They don't like anything that breaks up their rhythm that drastically.

Further along the trail where it follows a powerline, there is a low spot that was very glaciated today, meaning a bunch of water flowed over the surface and then froze. The dogs handled that just fine. We also got rained on and went through some low clouds and fog. In other words, it was perfect training for the Race To The Sky, which we will be doing in February. At the last Race To The Sky, it poured down rain for a whole day and a night during the race.